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Remember all that stuff I said about baking being kinda easy, just make slop, take a pic and bam, food blog?! Well, baking is hard!

This morning I set out to complete the rest of my Fruit and Crockpot Mania by making chicken stock, apple pie and pear muffins. For the pear muffins, I wanted to use the Hazelnut flour I bought (pear-hazelnut-cardamom, sounds good right?) and I was also determined not to make the same mistake with the coconut flour that I did yesterday, although when I brought those muffins to work, they were gone before lunch.

But, it was hard! Wah!

I first put the chicken stock on (still hope, there). Then I started on the pie crust. I found one recipe, that seemed like it was going to be good, but it wasn’t enough! It didn’t even cover the bottom of the pie tin. But I didn’t have enough eggs to make another one! So I used flax seed and corn starch to make a second, from this recipe from Jane’s Health Kitchen. AND, because I was in a rush, I used 1 tbsp. honey instead of the chicory, because, surprise! I didn’t have that either.

How the crust was supposed to look.

So the crust came out and in the meantime, I realized I didn’t want to waste my apples on it if it wasn’t good. So I took some of the fruit I had prepared for yesterdays pie and threw it in, even though it smelled kind of fermented. Moving on.

So I put the first pie crust on top of the fruit in the hopes of having it be some kind of “crumble” and put the pie in. It doesn’t “look” so bad, and actually doesn’t taste so bad either. Though, you can see it’s definitely got more of the crumble consistency that I was going for! Win!

This was hard. I decided I need to step back and re-evaluate my pear muffin and apple pie plans and perhaps buy some more eggs. Stayed tuned…

Update!

I decided to go with the more delicious looking zenbelly muffins, and substituted hazelnut flour for almond flour, corn starch for arrowroot starch, used butter instead of shortening and kept some whole diced pears in the mix, adding some cinnamon. Check out this batter!

And I am ECSTATIC to report that the muffins came out absolutely perfect:

Exploring the health care crisis through intergenerational conversation between Dr. Bernard Lown, a cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and his granddaughter Melanie Lown, a communications professional (and modern patient).

Seriously, I would sit and eat goldfish and oreos all day if I had it in my house. (Well pre-paleo I would have) But if it's not good for me, how on earth is it good for my baby?!?! So now, we are living a paleo / primal lifestyle, on a budget, with a baby!